[bkuhn]

I realize sarcasm is the "way of expressing things on HN", and I did some of it myself in a post upthread, but to get serious on norgie's point for a moment: I picked this specific issue to speak out on for two reasons: (a) as a regular traveler [0] and speaker at FOSS events, this was a great opportunity to draw attention to the problems with airlines, as all of us use them to attend these events and my blog is well read among FOSS folks and (b) as someone who is a frequent traveler, and recognized by Delta as a "good customer", I have a louder voice then most in this debate.

There are indeed a lot of issues that we should be speaking up on, and it can be exhausting to speak up on all of them. I try to target moments when my voice can get a bit more attention than usual for some reason and pounce on the opportunity to make a difference. I think it's a good approach.

(Again, I'm the poster of the ebb.org blog post that was the original article linked to in this thread; as others have mentioned, this article was changed to be about the Washington Post news story that inspired my blog post).

[0] and yes, the fossil fuel impact of that does bother me and I've spoken about that too at FOSS conferences)